NASCAR SPRINT CUP: SAMSUNG MOBILE 500 at Texas Motor Speedway ~ Saturday 4/14/12 AT 7:30 pm/et ~ FOX

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[o_zarkman44]

I didn’t get any qualifying points for any of my selections. What gives? My drivers selected, bench and active were 1-2-3. Is yahoo robbing me?

[NYTexan]

Don’t know...I’ve relived myself from that greif this year!

[SouthTexas]

He’ll probably win since I’m not there again. LOL

Nationwide is rolling.

[NYTexan]

[NYTexan]

Should be an interesting race tonight!

[GRRRRR]

Thanks for the #24 Winston CUP! Champion Ping!

Will Jeff ever win another Champeenship??

[SouthTexas]

Sometimes I really wonder, but I’ve always been a mufti-favorite fan. :)

Is the party over? Someone done turned out the lights!

[SouthTexas]

multi-—sheesh

[tubebender]

BdF q’ed 1-2-3 and all I gor was 18 points???

[SouthTexas]

10 + 5 + 3 = 18

Most of the time anyway.

[o_zarkman44]

I had 1-2-3 and was awarded NO points. WTH??

[SouthTexas]

TB’s special.

[NYTexan]

I call BS on this Red Flag! For a fracken circuit breaker???

[o_zarkman44]

Just looked after checking the league standings and I was awarded my 18 points suddenly!! Had me worried.

[NYTexan]

[SouthTexas]

Guess they needed an electrician!

Must have pissed someone off with my “turn out the lights” comment, completely lost the net down here. LOL
It is getting breezy though.

[SouthTexas]

Weather warnings in north Texas.

Been at the track when the tornado sirens went off, was quite exciting. Not necessarily fun though.

[MtnClimber]

I got 18 Q-points too.

[NYTexan]

Forecasters warn of 'life-threatening' storms to north of Fort Worth

ruh roh

[SouthTexas]

Best keep your head down.

[NYTexan]

ehh...I don't see nuthin'

[SouthTexas]

Here, try this.

It's got a whole lot of cute little thingies.

[NYTexan]

Cool!

Added to favorites.

[WestCoastGal]

LOVE the pics - thank you!!!!

Hope that car finds the finish line first tonight and gets HMS that elusive #200 so they can get rid of the hat bag.

[NYTexan]

Yer welcome!

The only driver cheered at Q was Jr. when he took the pole, albeit for only a moment...

Stickin’ ‘round for the race?

[SouthTexas]

Click on the cars and you get live video. I think I’d have to have a very big engine to chase tornadoes.

[NormsRevenge]

a cattlerack

did it have fins? those 56s can be nasty.

it has ceased raining here and in the dallas area..

nice picks .. so far.. ;-]

[NYTexan]

Oh heck, tornados don’t move that fast.

Ya just need to load up the truckbed with anchors, anvils, and concrete to keep from get’n swept away...

[NormsRevenge]

Lots of folk had Matt and TrueX
.. should be good..

[NormsRevenge]

TMS swaps out circuit breakers in lighting system
http://www.nascar.com/news/120414/texas-swaps-circuit-breakers/index.html

FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas Motor Speedway changed out all the circuit breakers in its lighting system prior to Saturday night’s Sprint Cup race at the facility to avoid localized outages like those that briefly interrupted the track’s Nationwide Series event.

Friday night’s Nationwide race was stopped under a red flag for a little less than six minutes as track technicians changed out a circuit breaker that had tripped and knocked out some of the lights in Turn 3. It was the second failure of the same circuit breaker that evening, which track president Eddie Gossage attributed to the piece of equipment being 15 years old.

As a precaution, Gossage said track maintenance workers changed out all 400 breakers overnight Saturday. The track had extras stored in a warehouse on the property.

“They simply went though and changed the breakers, putting new ones in, because they’re 15 years old,” Gossage said Saturday. “Just to be sure.”

[NYTexan]

Sure hope there is no more of that nonsense tonight!

[NormsRevenge]

NYT? Ya win a shotgun for the Pole? cool. Truex streaks to his first pole of 2012 at Texas

[NormsRevenge]

That was pretty bizarre.. heck just ducttape flashlights on their roofs and let em race.

[NYTexan]

Yes, life IS good in Texas!

[NYTexan]

[tubebender]

Are we there yet...

[NYTexan]

wait for it...wait for it...

[NYTexan]

NASCAR Pre-Race show is on Now!

The Caution Pool is OPEN! So let 'er rip!

[advertising guy]

funny thing about the Camaro.....folk are tradin em in fast as they can.....blind spots everywhere

[NYTexan]

Caution Pool:

NYT - 7

[NYTexan]

That’s sad ta know...I really wanted one!

[McGruff]

Radar looks ok.

[NYTexan]

Thankfully yes!

Storms not expected till well past checkerd flag!!!

[AGreatPer]

I would love to be the guy to go to Home Depot.
Give me 400 circuit breakers.

[nascarnation]

Looks like a fun night.

I went to the orchestra with my wife last night, so I’m good to go all evening with Nascar, LOL.

[advertising guy]

I loved the test drive......took a convertible out too

[NYTexan]

You were listen’n to that long haired music eh? ;)

Marriage Axiom #1: If she ain’t happy, you won’t be happy!

[advertising guy]

amen that

[NYTexan]

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